11. IX.

Arise, no School, to the Senate, Missouri Question, Mr. King of New York,1 crowd, home, evening, Cardelli.

1. Federalist Senator Rufus King (1775–1827) supported the right
and the expediency of restricting slavery in Missouri as a condition for statehood
(Annals of Congress, 16
Cong., 1 sess., 1:372–373). Slaveholders who listened to him “gnawed their lips
and clenched their fists” in anger (JQA, Diary, 11
Feb. 1820). In “Rufus King, Slavery, and the Missouri Crisis,” Robert Ernst has
recently explained King’s not always well understood position on the “Missouri
Question” (NYHS, Quart.,
46:357–382 [Oct. 1962]).